Katie Gale
"This volume is an act of resurrection, well worth the contemporary reader's immersion in another life and time."—Annie Dawid, High Country News
A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by violent change. Les mer
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As LLyn De Danaan mines the historical record, we begin to see Gale, a strong-willed Native woman who cofounded a successful oyster business, then won the legal rights from her Euro-American husband, a man with whom she had raised children but who ultimately made her life unbearable. Steeped in sadness-with a lost home and a broken marriage, children dying in their teens, and tuberculosis claiming her at forty-three-Katie Gale's story is also one of remarkable pluck, a tale of hard work and ingenuity, gritty initiative and bad luck that is, ultimately, essentially American.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Nebraska Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 336
- ISBN
- 9781496215116
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"This volume is an act of resurrection, well worth the contemporary reader's immersion in another life and time."—Annie Dawid, High Country News
«“An imaginative reflection on human dignity and resilience.”—Lisa Blee, Western Historical Quarterly»
"De Danaan's deeply sympathetic and immersive approach to her subject restores a voice to one among countless people whose story has been silenced."—Shelf Talk
«“I have followed LLyn De Danaan’s writing path for years now. She is talented and bold, and this new book puts her firmly where she belongs—at the heart of the American voice. Good stuff, highly recommended.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway and Into the Beautiful North»
«“Katie Gale’s story is unique in its scale; few accounts of the nineteenth-century Northwest focus on the life of a single Native woman and her family. LLyn De Danaan’s writing is big history made deeply human, offering insights not just into Native American history but also into the arrival of industrial capitalism on Puget Sound, the politics of statehood and race in Washington, and the profound transformation of local landscapes.”—Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place»